The first table below looks at the demand for Requirements Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Requirements Management over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Requirements Management
Rank 35 28 53
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +25
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Management 16 10 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 4.734% 6.410% 0.794%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.694% 8.772% 1.117%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 2
Average salary £45,000 £30,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -31.42%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £45,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+5.55% +8.43%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
281 114 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 83.14% 73.08% 71.03%
Number of salaries quoted 147 97 174
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Requirements Management
Cheshire

Requirements Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Requirements Management across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Chester Requirements Management Jobs Demand Trend

Requirements Management
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Requirements Management across the Chester region.

Chester Requirements Management Salary Trend

Requirements Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Requirements Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Requirements Management.

1 19 (51.35%) Ab Initio
1 19 (51.35%) UNIX
2 17 (45.95%) Web Services
3 16 (43.24%) ETL
3 16 (43.24%) Shell Script
4 15 (40.54%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (40.54%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (21.62%) User Stories
6 7 (18.92%) Java
6 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
6 7 (18.92%) SQL
6 7 (18.92%) T-SQL
6 7 (18.92%) .NET
6 7 (18.92%) CSS
6 7 (18.92%) RESTful
6 7 (18.92%) CSS3
6 7 (18.92%) jQuery
6 7 (18.92%) Time Management
6 7 (18.92%) Dependency Injection
6 7 (18.92%) HTML5
6 7 (18.92%) TDD
6 7 (18.92%) Pair Programming
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (18.92%) Scrum
6 7 (18.92%) Spring
6 7 (18.92%) JSON
7 6 (16.22%) Client/Server
8 5 (13.51%) Configuration Management
8 5 (13.51%) Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Waterfall

Requirements Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Requirements Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Requirements Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (45.95%) Web Services
2 7 (18.92%) .NET
2 7 (18.92%) CSS
2 7 (18.92%) RESTful
2 7 (18.92%) CSS3
2 7 (18.92%) jQuery
2 7 (18.92%) HTML5
2 7 (18.92%) Spring
2 7 (18.92%) JSON
3 4 (10.81%) HTML
4 1 (2.703%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) HTTP
2 2 (5.405%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.405%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (8.108%) Finance
2 2 (5.405%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 26 (70.27%) Developer
2 19 (51.35%) Ab Initio Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Analyst
3 8 (21.62%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Agile .NET Developer
4 3 (8.108%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.405%) Software Design Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Design Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Database Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) Lead Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.405%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) ETL
2 15 (40.54%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (40.54%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (21.62%) User Stories
4 7 (18.92%) Time Management
4 7 (18.92%) Dependency Injection
4 7 (18.92%) TDD
4 7 (18.92%) Pair Programming
4 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (18.92%) Scrum
5 5 (13.51%) Configuration Management
5 5 (13.51%) Migration
5 5 (13.51%) Waterfall
6 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
6 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.81%) UML
7 3 (8.108%) E-Commerce
7 3 (8.108%) Web Development
8 2 (5.405%) Use Case
8 2 (5.405%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Shell Script
2 7 (18.92%) Java
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) T-SQL
3 3 (8.108%) C#
4 2 (5.405%) Assembly Language
4 2 (5.405%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (8.108%) Degree
2 2 (5.405%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.405%) QA
1 2 (5.405%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Ab Initio